Case Study: Swiss Telecommunications Company achieves zero‑downtime, always‑on managed security for financial institutions with Forcepoint NGFW

Swiss Telecommunications Company Provides Managed Security Services to Financial Institutions Through a Deep Technical Partnership with Forcepoint

This Swiss telecommunications and managed IT services leader (over 20,000 employees) provides critical broadband and mobile connectivity and extensive managed security services to businesses—particularly financial institutions. Faced with the need for airtight, always-on protection (network failures can cost more than $500,000 per hour and even affect global markets) and an industry-wide shortage of security talent, the company needed a zero-downtime firewall solution it could reliably operate for its most sensitive customers.

Partnering closely with Forcepoint and its R&D teams, the company deployed Forcepoint NGFW, achieving top test results (stopping 99.7% of attacks and blocking 100% of evasions) and reducing maintenance-related downtime by about 70% through advanced clustering and fast updates. The result is stable, high‑availability managed firewall services for Swiss financial institutions, ongoing joint feature development, and sustained confidence in the company’s market leadership.